Reposted by Benjamin ManningKaty Milkman @katymilkman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025🚨New Paper Alert🚨 In a megastudy w/ 140k U.S. teachers on Zearn we tested 15 email campaigns nudging teachers to help their elementary school students progress in math. Our emails boosted math progress slightly (by 1.9%). Personalization added value. Led by A Duckworth. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 1163
Reposted by Benjamin ManningEmma Wiles @emmawiles.bsky.social · 24/03/2025🚨 New paper alert, with @johnjhorton.bsky.social! Using an experiment run on a large online labor market, we provide evidence that providing employers access to an AI-written first draft of a job post harms the efficiency of the market. emmawiles.github.io/storage/jobo... 89428
Reposted by Benjamin ManningNick Huntington-Klein @nickchk.com · 25/02/2025After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....papers.ssrn.comThe Sources of Researcher Variation in EconomicsWe use a rigorous three-stage many-analysts design to assess how different researcher decisions—specifically data cleaning, research design, and the interpretat 13345158